Political Commentary - Washington Times

Imagining the Islamic Republic

Last week, the European Union issued a statement on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, the nuclear weapons deal concluded with Iran's rulers, from which President Trump withdrew three months ago.

'Lay off Boris Johnson, and us for that matter'

By R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.

A fellow Spectatorian is under enemy fire, and we all must rally around him, particularly because he has done nothing wrong and because if those attacking him triumph we shall all suffer. The cause is free speech. The free speech that is endangered is in Great Britain, but if the forces of censorship win in London it is only a matter of time before the forces of censorship will be bringing their muzzles to our shores.

A case study in suffering and lack of freedom

By David Keene - The Washington Times

The tragedy that is Venezuela, a case study in the suffering and lack of freedom woven into the very fabric of Marxist socialism doesn't receive the attention it deserves at a time when last week's Gallup poll shows that Democrats view socialism more favorably than capitalism.

Liberalizing the university with conservative thought

By Anthony J. Sadar

For conservative academics who are intimately aware of university life under leftist machinations, "The University We Need: Reforming American Higher Education" by Warren Treadgold is a book that not only will augment personal experiences, but will offer what just may be a way out of the apparently hopeless mess that leftists have made of higher education.

Omarosa's sad and ineffective political pirouette

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

It's not that Omarosa was fired. It's that she was ever hired in the first place. Let the underscoring begin.

Prosperity and the rule of law

By Richard W. Rahn

Will China overtake the United States as the world's largest economy?

Prison reform, an unlikely Republican issue

By Cal Thomas

Prison reform has normally been an issue embraced by Democrats, not Republicans. But, perhaps, like so many other things in the Trump administration, this, too, is about to change.

'No submission to Islam'

By Daniel Pipes

No European head of government talks remotely like Hungary's Prime Minister Victor Orban. For example, he recently spoke of building in Hungary a "constitutional order based on national and Christian foundations," thereby avoiding a future in which "the whole of Europe has submitted to Islam."

Maintaining military superiority

By Debbie Lesko

America's national security relies on our military maintaining its absolute superiority — in the air, on the ground and at sea.

Preventing mass shootings

By Jennifer Bennett

On July 30, the Annapolis Capital Gazette shooter pled "not guilty" to shooting and killing five Gazette employees. Reports say armed with a shotgun, he entered the building and blasted his way into the Gazette offices. It reminded me of the time when another shooter used a shotgun and shot 16 people, including me, at the Washington Navy Yard in 2013.